(A non-cricketing persona to begin with, but cricket aficionados will not fail to recognize his genius) What he said: "This is not a family if no one plays soccer. No one is asking what can be done to improve soccer...

He did it. Roger Federer is through to his first major final since the 2010 Australian Open. He was written off. Yet he bounced back. Novak Djokovic can console himself that he almost took the match into the final set...

“The hunter has become the hunted.” Novak Djokovic has his sights lined up on his third major and the No. 1 ranking at the French Open . Barring his path to the final is Roger Federer , holder of 16 Grand Slams...

We love our tennis stars. They slide, they run, they yell, they grunt, they shriek and they pull off breath-taking shots such that we lesser mortals feel or believe that we are in the presence of demi-Gods...

What he said: “They are trying to be half-hour players; but for that, you’ll need to first be a good four-day player!” Harsha Bhogle believes that T20 players have to be good at the longer formats first...

What he said: “Perhaps my knighthood has been lost in the post. Sir Shane Warne—it has quite a ring to it, don’t you think?” Shane Warne jokes about being the only Wisden cricketer of the century not to be knighted...

Royal Challengers Bangalore were brought down to earth by a double whammy of G-forces. Adam Gilchrist came to the party exhibiting his prowess in a master-class of aggressive batting at the top of the order...

What he said: “He told me that you are at the big stage, people are going to write good things and bad things about you. But at the end of the day, you want that. The trees with the most fruits get stones thrown at them...